The cost of tax cuts to Americans in the top 1% is estimated at $3.4 Trillion over the next 75 years. The cost of Social Security over the next 75 years (by the very highest estimates) is $3.7 Trillion.
The President tells us we should give permanent tax cuts to the top 1% of Americans making millions of dollars a year, while reducing benefits to millions of America's elderly and poor.
The Administration is trying to convince us that poor millionaires in this country need the money more than our seniors. Millionaires and corporations are suffering and the elderly and poor are dragging our economy down. They see the poor, elderly and middle-class as the enemy and entitlements as giveaways to people who are too lazy to plan for their own future.
Shouldn't the measure of a society be how they provide for those least able to care for themselves? Since when did Americans get so greedy and mean? Why are we buying into welfare for mega-corporations and multi-millionaires but cuts in Social Security and Medicare?
Today, the poor are sending their children to fight and die, multi-millionaires and multi-billionaires are reaping the rewards from no-bid contracts, war profiteering and tax cuts. Millions of our tax dollars have simply disappeared in Iraq and our troops are still using plating out of wrecking yards to arm their vehicles. The American middle-class is being told that they should pay for it all, by allowing the government to rob a fund that we have paid into for our entire working lives.
The Administration is claiming that we need tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires because they create the jobs and put the money back into the economy? Where’s the proof of that? Aren’t corporations continuing to cut jobs and outsource them to other countries? How does that help the American worker?
Where is the honor among millionaires? Where is the honor among corporate billionaires? Why do they feel that they are entitled to reap the rewards of living in this great country without having to share in the hard times?
How can this Administration claim moral leadership when they consistently place the desires of billionaires above the needs of the American people? Even their supposed "Prescription Drug Benefit" benefits mega pharmaceutical companies more than seniors and adds $8.7 Trillion over 75 years to the deficit. Again, a corporate giveaway they want the middle-class to pay for.
Ask yourself, why should we pay for tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires? Why should we pay for the cost of the war when corporations are reaping huge profits on no-bid contracts? Which oil companies will reap the profits from the Iraq oil fields? Where did that money go in Iraq and why aren’t our troops properly armed. Who’s getting rich off this war and who’s going to pay? Who’s going to pay for the runaway spending by this Administration? Why are we standing by while they drive the country into bankruptcy?
Is the President a compassionate conservative. From what I can see, he’s neither compassionate or conservative and he is definitely not a real Republican!
The American govt. is not responsible for the care and feeding of all its citizens. The family is the group that is most directly responsible. That being said, there are some folks who truly need assistance. They can get basic assistance from many different agencies in this govt. Others are just welching off the system, and need to be set straight.
The President has been pushing his Faith Based initiatives because he's seen the evidence that these groups have the most success in not only taking care of people, but in moving them out of poverty. Welfare programs are not meant to sustain generation after generation of families, but that's what is expected by some nowadays.
This country is very diverse in that there are some people with LOTS of ambition, some with none, and most in the great middle. Everyone has access to an education; some better than others, but the basics are there. It's what people do with the opportunities they are given that shows their measure.
You can tax the rich until the Day of Judgement, but that won't help one single family rise out of poverty if they don't want to take the time or trouble to do so.
As for Senior citizens, the individuals that largely make up that group right now have a larger disposable income than ever before. Many could buy their own prescription drugs, but don't want to spend the money on that particular purchase. For those who truly cannot afford meds, I'm happy that some of my tax money will be helping them, but there is absolutely no need for my taxes to subsidize the prescriptions of some rich elderly geezer and his wife simply because they happen to have survived past the age of 65.
Normagene, I've looked at your past posts. Surprised you haven't been zotted as of yet. You are quite the Marxist in many of your ideals.